My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Heraclitus was an opponent of all democratic parties.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.